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From: lizzyx323 on 25 Jul 2008 19:47 On Jul 25, 4:33 am, Kate XXXXXX <k...(a)diceyhome.free-online.co.uk> wrote: > Another pound closer to goeal! 4 lbs to go to be back at my goal, 5 to > be back to 5 stone gone. > > I had a couple of rocky days (too much chocolate and wheat!), but did > enough exercise helping a friend move classrooms and sort the department > stock cupboard out (we shifted a ton of books, some metal library > shelving units, and a ton or so of reams of paper onto shelves ubove out > heads when we were up stepladders!), and pack for moving house (shifting > things out of atticks and down to the tip, a carload to her ex's for her > son, and a shedload of other stuff!). > > Swimming tonight, and I'm planning the week's meals and shopping list... > -- > Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls > Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttonshttp://www.katedicey.co.uk > Click on Kate's Pages and explore! Good job. But, how do you keep it. I 've have been trying for so long. With me I'll lose 5 or 8 pounds but I always gain it back. It's been like that for me for two years or so. Please tips here would help. Thank you so much. LIZ
From: Kate XXXXXX on 26 Jul 2008 18:15 lizzyx323(a)gmail.com wrote: > On Jul 25, 4:33 am, Kate XXXXXX <k...(a)diceyhome.free-online.co.uk> > wrote: >> Another pound closer to goeal! 4 lbs to go to be back at my goal, 5 to >> be back to 5 stone gone. >> >> I had a couple of rocky days (too much chocolate and wheat!), but did >> enough exercise helping a friend move classrooms and sort the department >> stock cupboard out (we shifted a ton of books, some metal library >> shelving units, and a ton or so of reams of paper onto shelves ubove out >> heads when we were up stepladders!), and pack for moving house (shifting >> things out of atticks and down to the tip, a carload to her ex's for her >> son, and a shedload of other stuff!). >> >> Swimming tonight, and I'm planning the week's meals and shopping list... >> -- >> Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls >> Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttonshttp://www.katedicey.co.uk >> Click on Kate's Pages and explore! > > Good job. But, how do you keep it. I 've have been trying for so long. > With me I'll lose 5 or 8 pounds but I always gain it back. It's been > like that for me for two years or so. Please tips here would help. > Thank you so much. LIZ It's a mix of being ready to do it (like a lot of things, you have to be ready or you won't do it), having health issues, and being bloody minded! :D First off, I was bored with avoiding mirrors and ignoring the ever-expanding waistline, and saw pix of myself at a friend's wedding, and thought 'Jeeze - -I look like a hippo in drag!' I had been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, and I had IBS... And was then diagnosed with gall bladder disease. I needed to lose weight for the op, and even after it was over, found I was one of the 10% or so that can never go back to the old diet as I cannot process fats properly. Losing the weight and getting a lot fitter also made a big difference to the fibro: I'm in no less pain, but not having an extra 70lbs to drag round with it has given me a lot more energy to cope with the bad times. And when I get my teeth into something, I'm like a terrier at a rat-hole! ;) I've always loved food and cooking, and I like a challenge, so the fat/red meat/coffee/red wine/sweet stuff free diet was a chance to explore a different way of cooking. I'm also sensative to wheat, so exploring the low gluten/wheet free aspect of bread and cake has proved a fun thing as well. I'm getting quite good at it, but have to admit that giving up proper bread is MUCH harder than giving up chocolate! I tend to plan the meals for the week ahead, use that to make the shopping list, send the hubby out to do the shopping, and cook acording to the plan. We buy less food, eat better, waste a lot less, and all three of us benefit Hubby is a Type 1 diabetic, and son is a vast and ever growing 13 YO (5'10" with 33" waist - so huge, but NOT fat! just rugby player/swimmer... ). I have a whole heap of Weight Watchers cookbooks. I often cook a 4 portion recipe, and rather than having 'seconds' or bigger portions, I dish the fourth portion into a freezer box, and have a collection of home cooked 'ready meals' waiting for emergencies. Now and again I leave a dinner space on the weekly plan and we have a TV Dinner Night and use some of them up so that we don't end up with half a freezer full of fossils in permafrost! :D It just takes a little more organizing, but you soon fall into the way of it. And I find that I look at the menu for the day in the morning, get anything out of the freezer that I need for the day, and then don't need to think about it again until it's time to make dinner. I'm flexible enough that nothing is carved in stone, so if something happens that requires a change of plan, there's always something that can be done to cope with things like not getting home in time to cook the planned meal, or there being extra mouths to feed, or whatever. And I never beat myself up over a bad day: just start again tomorrow. -- Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.katedicey.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore!
From: Willow Herself on 8 Aug 2008 19:03 'Jeeze - -I look like a hippo in drag!' Kate, have I ever mentionned that you're as funny as you are lovely?? hehehe Will~ "Kate XXXXXX" <kate(a)diceyhome.free-online.co.uk> wrote in message news:86WdnaRdLMl5PRbVnZ2dnUVZ8svinZ2d(a)posted.plusnet... > lizzyx323(a)gmail.com wrote: >> On Jul 25, 4:33 am, Kate XXXXXX <k...(a)diceyhome.free-online.co.uk> >> wrote: >>> Another pound closer to goeal! 4 lbs to go to be back at my goal, 5 to >>> be back to 5 stone gone. >>> >>> I had a couple of rocky days (too much chocolate and wheat!), but did >>> enough exercise helping a friend move classrooms and sort the department >>> stock cupboard out (we shifted a ton of books, some metal library >>> shelving units, and a ton or so of reams of paper onto shelves ubove out >>> heads when we were up stepladders!), and pack for moving house (shifting >>> things out of atticks and down to the tip, a carload to her ex's for her >>> son, and a shedload of other stuff!). >>> >>> Swimming tonight, and I'm planning the week's meals and shopping list... >>> -- >>> Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls >>> Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate >>> Buttonshttp://www.katedicey.co.uk >>> Click on Kate's Pages and explore! >> >> Good job. But, how do you keep it. I 've have been trying for so long. >> With me I'll lose 5 or 8 pounds but I always gain it back. It's been >> like that for me for two years or so. Please tips here would help. >> Thank you so much. LIZ > > It's a mix of being ready to do it (like a lot of things, you have to be > ready or you won't do it), having health issues, and being bloody minded! > :D > > First off, I was bored with avoiding mirrors and ignoring the > ever-expanding waistline, and saw pix of myself at a friend's wedding, and > thought 'Jeeze - -I look like a hippo in drag!' > > I had been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, and I had IBS... And was then > diagnosed with gall bladder disease. I needed to lose weight for the op, > and even after it was over, found I was one of the 10% or so that can > never go back to the old diet as I cannot process fats properly. Losing > the weight and getting a lot fitter also made a big difference to the > fibro: I'm in no less pain, but not having an extra 70lbs to drag round > with it has given me a lot more energy to cope with the bad times. > > And when I get my teeth into something, I'm like a terrier at a rat-hole! > ;) > > I've always loved food and cooking, and I like a challenge, so the fat/red > meat/coffee/red wine/sweet stuff free diet was a chance to explore a > different way of cooking. I'm also sensative to wheat, so exploring the > low gluten/wheet free aspect of bread and cake has proved a fun thing as > well. I'm getting quite good at it, but have to admit that giving up > proper bread is MUCH harder than giving up chocolate! > > I tend to plan the meals for the week ahead, use that to make the shopping > list, send the hubby out to do the shopping, and cook acording to the > plan. We buy less food, eat better, waste a lot less, and all three of us > benefit Hubby is a Type 1 diabetic, and son is a vast and ever growing 13 > YO (5'10" with 33" waist - so huge, but NOT fat! just rugby > player/swimmer... ). > > I have a whole heap of Weight Watchers cookbooks. I often cook a 4 > portion recipe, and rather than having 'seconds' or bigger portions, I > dish the fourth portion into a freezer box, and have a collection of home > cooked 'ready meals' waiting for emergencies. Now and again I leave a > dinner space on the weekly plan and we have a TV Dinner Night and use some > of them up so that we don't end up with half a freezer full of fossils in > permafrost! :D It just takes a little more organizing, but you soon fall > into the way of it. And I find that I look at the menu for the day in the > morning, get anything out of the freezer that I need for the day, and then > don't need to think about it again until it's time to make dinner. > > I'm flexible enough that nothing is carved in stone, so if something > happens that requires a change of plan, there's always something that can > be done to cope with things like not getting home in time to cook the > planned meal, or there being extra mouths to feed, or whatever. And I > never beat myself up over a bad day: just start again tomorrow. > > -- > Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls > Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons > http://www.katedicey.co.uk > Click on Kate's Pages and explore!
From: Kate XXXXXX on 9 Aug 2008 03:55 Willow Herself wrote: > 'Jeeze - -I look like a hippo in drag!' > > > Kate, have I ever mentionned that you're as funny as you are lovely?? > > hehehe > > Will~ I wore a dove grey dress and a huge hat... One day I will publish that photo. :D Not doing too well at the moment: been very busy, with meals on a fly-past-and-grab basis, no time for proper walks or swimming, and the fibro is being hellish. Mostly I'm maintaining about 3-6lbs above goal. Things SHOULD calm down this week. I've had time to plan the menu properly, we have borrowed a dog that will need walks, and I should be back to weighing in and swimming by the end of the week. I'll keep things ticking over this week, take stock at w-i on Thursday, and move on from there. -- Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.katedicey.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore!
From: Willow Herself on 9 Aug 2008 13:39
I need to do some cooking ahead!!! It's ridiculous Will~ "Kate XXXXXX" <kate(a)diceyhome.free-online.co.uk> wrote in message news:z-adnTRvMtO40QDVnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d(a)posted.plusnet... > Willow Herself wrote: >> 'Jeeze - -I look like a hippo in drag!' >> >> >> Kate, have I ever mentionned that you're as funny as you are lovely?? >> >> hehehe >> >> Will~ > > I wore a dove grey dress and a huge hat... One day I will publish that > photo. :D > > Not doing too well at the moment: been very busy, with meals on a > fly-past-and-grab basis, no time for proper walks or swimming, and the > fibro is being hellish. Mostly I'm maintaining about 3-6lbs above goal. > > Things SHOULD calm down this week. I've had time to plan the menu > properly, we have borrowed a dog that will need walks, and I should be > back to weighing in and swimming by the end of the week. I'll keep things > ticking over this week, take stock at w-i on Thursday, and move on from > there. > -- > Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls > Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons > http://www.katedicey.co.uk > Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |